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Trash boat: ship made of recycled bottles prepares to sail Pacific Ocean

February 4 2010, ABC News
It's a work of modern art and an engineering marvel -- a 60-foot catamaran kept afloat by recycled plastic bottles. It only takes 12,000 bottles to do the job. Each is filled filled with carbon dioxide, making the bottles so rigid that a truck could drive over one and it wouldn't break.

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